Feb 27, 2011

Attack shuts Iraq's largest oil refinery, kills 1

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Photo by: AP [file] By ASSOCIATED PRESS 
02/26/2011 11:41 BAGHDAD  — Gunmen attacked Iraq's largest oil refinery Saturday, killing a guard and detonating bombs that sparked a fire and forced the facility to shut down, officials said.
The assailants, carrying pistols fitted with silencers, broke into the Beiji refinery around 3:30 a.m., attacked the guards and planted bombs near some production units for benzene and kerosene, said the spokesman for Salahuddin province, Mohammed al-Asi.

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